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To live in relationship with God, expressed in this holy lifestyle, is to be blessed. This blessing is not portrayed as a reward for keeping the law; it rests on God's promise and is an automatic consequence of being in relationship with him.
There is no doubt that this blessing is expressed in material terms.
The people are led to expect that material benefits, of fertility, prosperity, peace and victory, will be theirs as a result of remaining in relationship with God. However, the ultimate blessing is not the material benefits but the relationship itself. To be part of God's covenant people, to belong to God in this way, is to be blessed. In a similar way, to be out of relationship with God is to be cursed.
M. J. Evans, "Blessing/Curse," in New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, ed. T. Desmond Alexander and Brian S. Rosner, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 398.
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On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. EB White
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The Lord was rebuking me continually saying, "You've been worrying about all this. Didn't I tell you fifty times that I was in charge? If this is what I want you to do then I'm going to work it out. And if it's not what I want you to do then you are going to learn something else."
Elisabeth Elliot
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“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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sometimes love is just doing things without having to be asked, making a cup of tea for someone as they’re working, packing an extra lunch because you know they’re rushed for time. Love doesn’t have to be expressed in grand gestures, to me, the little gestures of love matter more.
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So how does it feel to be an old lady? It feels like a tired, very dependent, very happy little girl being carried in the arms of her Father. And she's calling to her friends, "Look how good and strong my Daddy is!" And she knows that when she falls asleep in His arms, she'll wake up at Home.
Susan Hunt
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“When I judge a man for marriage, I mentally take away his looks, his money, his cars and everything materialistic and then ask myself what he really has to offer. Is he honest? Loyal? Caring and kind? Loving and trustworthy? Because let me tell you, while his good looks and money will make you weak in the knees now, at 3am when your child is crying to be fed. And your eyes are heavy and your body is weak from postpartum, it will not be how he looks or all that he owns that will matter. It will be the compassion in his heart, the mercy in his nature and the love for you in his soul that will push him out of bed to quickly feed the child and tell you “don’t worry honey, I got this.” That’s what I really envision long-term. Little moments like these that differentiates an ordinary man from an extraordinary husband and father. And that is all I need.”
— Nashiha Pervin (via aestheteheart)
This is what truely matters.
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Excerpts from "Focused: A Story and a Song" by Lilias Trotter
Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once - art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the “good” hiding the “best” even more effectually than it could be hidden by downright frivolity with its smothered heart-ache at its own emptiness.
It is easy to find out whether our lives are focused, and if so, where the focus lies. Where do our thoughts settle when consciousness comes back in the morning? Where do they swing back when the pressure is off during the day? Does this test not give the clue? Then dare to have it out with God - and after all, that is the shortest way. Dare to lay bare your whole life and being before Him, ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His glory.
What does this focusing mean? Study the matter and you will see that it means two things - gathering in all that can be gathered, and letting the rest drop. The working of any lens - microscope, telescope, camera - will show you this. The lens of your own eye, in the room where you are sitting, as clearly as any other. Look at the window bars, and the beyond is only a shadow; look through at the distance, and it is the bars that turn into ghosts. You have to choose which you will fix your gaze upon and let the other go.
How do we bring things to a focus in the world of optics? Not by looking at the things to be dropped, but by looking at the one point that is to be brought out.
Turn full your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him, and the Divine “attrait” by which God’s saints are made, even in this 20th century, will lay hold of you. For He is worthy to have all there is to be had in the heart that He has died to win.
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According to my judgement the most important point to be attended to is this: above all things see to it that your souls are happy in the Lord. Other things may press upon you, the Lord's work may even have urgent claims upon your attention, but I deliberately repeat, it is of supreme and paramount importance that you should seek above all things to have your souls truly happy in God Himself! Day by day seek to make this the most important business of your life. This has been my firm and settled condition for the last five and thirty years. For the first four years after my conversion I knew not its vast importance, but now after much experience I specially commend this point to the notice of my younger brethren and sisters in Christ: the secret of all true effectual service is joy in God, having experimental acquaintance and fellowship with God Himself.
George Muller
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As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God- not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
George Muller
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[Anxiety] is projecting a future where God is not sovereign. He's not good. And ultimately that is unbelief. And that needs to be repented of. [These fears] are based on some false assumption that God is not powerful enough to intervene or wise enough to redeem all things for good. That He doesn't love me. Or He's not in control. So it's crucial to train our minds to think scripturally.
Jocelyn Wallace, Joyful Journey Podcast
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“A Christian is not somebody who stays away from all wicked things he loves and clings to all the righteous things he hates so that he can go to heaven. The fear of the Christian is not going to hell. The fear of the Christian is being separated from Christ.”
— Paul Washer
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"You rebel against what's pure, but when you're filthy you start to long for what's pure. You need gentleness to feel pain. You need sunlight before you notice darkness. You can't underestimate either. And neither are a waste. So even if you mess up sometimes, it's not for nothing. As long as you make sure to think, "I won't let this be for nothing"... it's bound to become nourishment for you to grow in life. That's my theory on life."
Fruits Basket
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Spiritual friendship is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
Tim Keller
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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
C.S. Lewis
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That’s the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
Brother Andrew, God’s Smuggler (via danielasarahy)
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